The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-25

extra postage was charged although they
were duly stamped. We had never before
heard of like instance. 80 As b. f.
Sibley's team attempted to cross the bridge
close by j. b. Brockway's house, last Thurs
day, the bridge gave way. The horses were
gotten across to the other side, but the
wagon and load tarried behind II is said
our street commissioners had examined the
bridge only short time before and found
it defective, but hoped it would be safe
awhile longer. - We are told that com
petent authority pronounces some of the
granite powders on j. NJ. Bass farm good
enough for polishing purposes, and in the
event of railroad to this point will be
worth buying. We believe there is an
abundance of the material below and above
ground here, as yet unknown or unappre-
ciated, that will be brought to light " in
due time after getting the railroad -
Members of Prentiss Waldos family went
to Plainiied last week Wednesday to cele-
brate, with other friends, the birthday of
his worthy son-in-law, Ed" Colby. -
The Waldo Brothers, sons of the late Mr.
Marshall Waldo, with characteristic thrift
have bought large slice of the Abram
Lougee farm, including some of the best
timbered land. - Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
+. Ward of Burlington have been the guests
of Mrs. Chester Martin in the last few DAYS.
- 1t looks as If our little village was
nearly through the shedding of its first
teeth when $40 and upwards per month
could be asked for hotise-rent. But great
expectations, in view of the hoped-for rail
road, is doing it. - The total grand list
of Williamstown this year is 81, 936 80. Last
year it was S5,52627. The new and lower
appraisal of the real estate for this years
list accounts for part of the difference.
The personal property list for 1887 is ST.
1921, against 81, 301. 96 for 1886. The num-
Der of polls taxed this year is 265; last year
it was 2S2 We trust the pendulum has
reached its extreme limit and will now
swing back till degree of prosperity I'M
known in the history of the town thus far
shall be reached. - One who is we'll
known to some of our citizeEs-a man who
has achieved much more than ordinary
success in life-writes us, under recent
date, that he believes it in the power of our
citizens to make this "a smart little place."
But " they must all put their shoulders to
the wheel. Start it now" he adds. Two
things are as clear as monday first, the
railroad must necessarily pass through our
village in such way as to give unsur-
passed advantages for the location of granite
shops alongside it; second, just as long as
the granite of this vicinity shall have the
place in public favor it now has we chal-
lenge any one to show advantages for get
ting it to village superior to our own, to
say the least And where can better
location Gn point of convenience, beauty,
healthfulness, etc. be found than this?
Now we want some first-class men, with
capital, to come here and look over the
ground and say if there is more inviting
prospect for gain than they will find here.
- The body of the late Mr.. Ira Smith,
who died in Texas in 1885, did not reach
Vermont for burial until last Saturday
Having been placed in a metallic case it
was brought without the least trouble. On
Sunday morning, followed by a few old
friends, it was deposited in the West Hill
cemetery beside those of other members of
the family, in accordance with the desire he
had expressed to be laid there. - Mrs.
Mahlon E. Davis, only daughter Of the late
Mr.. Ira Smith, came on last week from
Texas with his body as far as Schenectady,
n. Y, where she was met by her brother
Will " of Philadelphia, Pa, who came the
rest of the way with it, and she went on to
Philadelphia, to remain short time She
is expected here soon George w. Smith of
this family, who seems to have achieved a
great financial success as a manufacturer in
Philadelphia starts this week with his wife
and two sons for Europe for a short
stay. 1t is perhaps the fourth or fifth trip
he has made across the Atlantic. -
Mrs. Orcutt Abbott and daughter, Miss
Lucy, are to return to the home-roof this
week, after an absence of several months.
A hearty welcome awaits them. - Ex-
townsman DR.. Gideon Dickinson of Mil
ford, Mass, is visiting his sister, Mrs. A. NJ.
Hubbard. - On Monday morning last
the railway surveyors had come this way
from Barre Lower Village only TO a point
on the western edge of South Barre vii
lage. AS we hear it, they find very salts
factory grade. We believe this portion of
of the road is considered the most difficult
one on the line from here to Barre village
-" viii Smith, in his recent short
visit here, managed to see quite number
of old acquaintances, whose ccrdality was
warmly appreciated. - One who knows
and shudders at our winters just here
abouts, and who has visited Florida, tells
us he would sooner live right here than in
Florida. j. Edward Ainsworth, SON
in-law of the late Mr., Calvin Ainsworth
and chief engineer of the Sioux City & Pa
cific railroad, has the little job on his
hands of building three hundred miles of
railroad in the far West this year. -
George Adams has been visiting in New
Hampshire, and, we hear, will go TO Connec-
ticut, possibly to locate there as a druggist.
- If it were possible for human nature
to keep constantly in mind and appreciate
fully the debts of love and gratitude due
others, this nation would need no day like
the one just at hand to specially remind it
of what it owes the Union soldiers of the
late war. Each days blessings, so many of
which they purchased for us with their own
blood, would remind us of them and their
sacrifices. We are glad to hear and repeat
just at this time an incident in the late